Hollywood Gossip
Via Darren Barefoot comes gossip from the A-List. No idea how true these are, but an interesting read nonetheless. If you believe the things on the page, pretty much everyone in or around hollywood is gay, lesbian, bisexual or all of the above, along with being a homewrecker and a slut, and involved in various illegal transgressions previous to becoming famous. Or is just a freak. Guess such is the price of fame eh?

Best Resume Intro Ever.
Saw this in a sig and I just had to follow the link. Will Code for Climbing Gear tells a story I can definately relate to... having the skills, a bit of extra time, and the need for more gear. Well, I can't relate to that now, but I could, once.

On Font Add...
A hilarious letter to MS from Anil Dash regarding the font add dialog box. Have to agree with him here. Of course, you can also (IIRC) just drag fonts into the fonts folder, but still. I wonder if progman.exe is still hiding in the bowles of XP somewhere :)

Derby Racer Stripped of Title
Ever think people take things to seriously? I don't. This cheating little bastard punk was rightfully stripped of his derby racing title after several violations of the racing rules were found. I hope the little 13 year old cheat gets the book thrown at him!

You're trying to tell me that Lara Croft can't easily and efficiently kick the ass of a Nobel Prize winner but she can stop a 1/2 ton shark with one punch? Have you seen any Nobel Prize winners lately? Martial arts and kick-boxing isn't really their thing.

Outlook Style BlogGot FoO.com has to be the neatest set up for a blog that I've seen yet. Styled like outlook 2003 (or something like that) it's mucho funky and rather functional. Hell, it even works in Mozilla (which I wasn't expecting). Anyone want to build this interface for a web based RSS reader for me? Please?

A Soldiers Weblog
Cool, the unauthorized weblog from a soldier on duty in Iraq. Found via taint.org. I haven't read it yet, but it'll be interesting to see into this whole deal without the media or public relations getting in the way. I'm sure this guy is going to have his own take on things, but I doubt it'll be as sanatized or patriotic as the other "news" agencies out there. Another plus for weblogs!

Online XUL RSS AggregatorXULChannels is very cool. An online RSS reader that uses XUL through the mozilla rendering engine, with no installation required, nothing to download, nothing to run. It still leaves some to be desired, but it's a very cool idea, and shows that mozilla derived browsers have the same capability for "customer" apps as ActiveX based browsers do, assuming that I have the comparision right that is :)

New UI for Computers
[~stevenf] James Patten has a very cool video on his site (quicktime 5.0) showing a very Minority Report type computer use with a computer tracking and interacting with physical objects laid on a table. You sort of have to see it to understand what I'm talking about though :)

Questions to China
An absolutely fascinating thread on The Cellar. Basically a guy from China named Billy posted a picture up there (with a couple of false starts) and eventually it turned into a question and answer period from the west to the east, with people asking questions about Chinese culture, food, medicine, gov't, pretty much anything. A really interesting, but long read. Mucho thanks to Brad for telling me about this last night.

A Plan for Physical Fitness
The 5BX Plan for Physical Fitness is a scientifically designed approach to physical fitness done by the RCAF. It's designed to be done in 11 minutes per day, and not rely on any equipment or gym facilities. Cool idea, something to try out. Of course, eating healthy is also essencial for getting anywhere with that programmers gut.

Asterix and Obelix Movie
Cool! It's not english, but I was thrown a link to a page with the movie Asterix en Obelix tegen Caesar, a live action Asterix movie (which looks quite old now).

Google for Asterix and Obelix if you're not up with who these guys are.... I used to read the comics when I was a wee one and still have a full stack which I periodically go through. Great art, great stories and characters. It's all centered around a small village in Gaul, the last outpost against the Roman army, helped by a magic potion which gives them incrediable strength. Definately recommended for anyone, even if you have to say you're getting them for your kids (who should enjoy them as well :)

How to pick up a redhead
Great advice from e2, How to pick up hot red headed chicks. The bonus with this Howto is they actually give good advice on the actual words, instead of something generic, like "say something interesting to her." Interesting advice for geeks everywhere :)

PC Users Don't Switch
Interesting article on the ORA network with a few reasons why PC Users won't switch to a mac. Interesting thoughts anyway, and a lot makes sense... though the folks over at macslash are going to have different opinions no doubt.

No folks, I don't know what is going on, but I can't get to our favorite morning web comic destination. Hardware problems? Routers? A new IP that hasn't propagated yet? Who knows, but I know that the good folks are running their asses off right now to get it back up and going. In the meantime, you can get your fix from an archived funny from below from many years ago. Reposted without permission, but I think Illiad would understand.

Update It's up now. The collective geek community heaves a sigh of relief....

Up and Alive!
Turns out that while I heard 10am, the good folks at paralynx (the hosts) actually said pm, and due to them moving offices the box didn't get turned back on after we had realized our miscommunication. However, everything is back up and running now. Ok, now for another few hundred days of uninterrupted uptime!

UFies Scheduled Downtime
Hi Folks. The good folks at Paralynx, who host UFies.org and it's hosted domains are moving shop, so on Tuesday, July 15th sometime during the day. UFies.org and all it's services, including mail, web, and ftp will be unavailable for some undetermined period of time. I don't know of the schedule or how long things will be down, but I'm hoping not too long.

Please bear with and sorry for the inconvenience.

Update Ufies will be shut down at 10am sharp and I'm told downtime should be only for a couple of hours max.

Interesting question eh?. Right now a lot of geeks aren't too Microsoft friendly and this guy is a big player (I think) on the Longhorn team, and we have a chance to respond. A few people have, but I'd encourage all y'all to throw a (politely and maturely phrased) response back to him.

Evolution 2.0 Mockups
Looks like the monkies over at Ximian have put up some mockups for the Evolution 2.0 UI proposal. Looks like a nicer UI for sure... can it be out now please? Any UI goones want to critique?

Kernel 2.6 Info
Some good kernel 2.6 info for people interested in trying out the 2.5.* series in anticipation of the soon-to-be-here 2.6 series. Information on some common gotchas (blank screen after decompressing kernel for instance), how to patch, things that are new, things that are gone, things that have changed.

I've personally played around with the 2.5.7[1-4] kernels a bit in trying to get my new motherboard to work (the nforce2 based A7N8X). I didn't notice a huge performance difference, even with the new schedular, but I was running a 2.4 kernel that had all the new 0(1) schedular stuff in it already. There are a few things in GNOME that need to be adapted for the new kernel still, but that'll happen when things get closer I'm sure.

Found via the same blog (next post) comes this video which really has to be seen to be understood. Very safe for work, very amusing, and originally found by Scoble apparently. I don't see the post in reference, but hey, Scoble is a cool guy with a neat blog, even if he is a Microserf :)

Bitching about StuffBitch about Stuff is a website that allows you to anonymously bitch about things. Afraid that your GF/BF/Boss/Parents read your blog and don't want them to know you hate their stupid chicken @#$^n pot pies, but still want to bitch about it? this is the place. Found via Lazyweb, a site where people can post ideas in the hopes that someone will see them and implement them (another cool idea).

Republican vs Democrat
Illiad has a good post up up Aspectus.com entitled Republican vs Democrat. Take the test and see what side you are on? Personally I'm both and neither, at the same time (and do think that ATM fees are too high dammit!)

Longhorn Replace Dialog Critique
A funny/interesting critique of the Longhorn "replace file" dialog. Lets just say that the way that MS is going with longhorn seems to be the opposite direction of the mac in terms of un-complicating their UI.

Apple Prices
My good buddy Engel has some amazingly sane thoughts on Apple Pricing, hardware, and zelotry in his blog. This is a guy who I've had many conversations on this sort of thing with, both in agreement and out, and he's got great points.

Before the G5 was out, the mantra was, "Speed Doesn't Matter." Now, before anyone even has a G5 in their hot little hands, the mantra is, "Speed is Great, Macs are the Fastest." Ugh, doublethink. Hate it.

While he's living aboard the International Space Station, Expedition Seven NASA ISS Science Officer Ed Lu is writing about his experiences. His letters are listed below, beginning with the most recent addition.

Linux Browsers
Kasia has a great write up on her Adventures in browser-land, head over and read it. I pretty much agree with everything and have ranted about it before, both on the web and in person. I love the analogy of MS as a drug dealer dealing out "broken html". Personally I think that if IE was faciastly stringant in their rendering the world would be a better place (well, on the web anyway). Well, that and having any web designer that has ever put up a "browser detection + this page only works in IE" page drawn and quartered.

Now to wait for the flood of "but IE is so much more standards compliant!" comments from the peanut gallery :)

Happy July 4!
Just wanted to say a big "happy July 4th" to all my friends and readers who will be celebrating today with hot dogs, apple pie, fireworks and the like. Hope it's a good one guys. In honor of this this proud Canadian has thrown up this digitalblasphemy wallpaper.

Scary Places to Send Your ChildrenThe last resort sounds like a frightfully horrible place to be sent. Basically it's a detention center for 11 to 18 year olds, the likes of which not even Maury and his "My Teen Needs to be Sent to Boot Camp" shows can imagine. Link via random($foo).